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" There is no such thing as a baby'. ... if you show me a baby you certainly show me also someone caring for the baby, or at least a pram with someone's eyes and ears glued to it. One sees a 'nursing couple'. "
Music Therapy with Children and their Families - Page 11
by Claire Flower, Amelia Oldfield - 2008 - 208 pages
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Hide and Seek: The Child Between Psychoanalysis and Fiction

Virginia L. Blum - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 320 pages
...are one unit that Winnicott favors a single caretaking mother. Winnicott is famous for observing that "there is no such thing as a baby ... if you show...certainly show me also someone caring for the baby." Winnicott's point is that children are born into and thrive within relational contexts; at the same...
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Existential Thought and Therapeutic Practice: An Introduction to Existential ...

Hans W Cohn - Psychology - 1997 - 148 pages
...relational context is, of course, not an existential prerogative. Donald Winnicott's much-quoted saying that 'there is no such thing as a baby ... if you show...certainly show me also someone caring for the baby', is making this very point, and his subsequent proposition that 'the centre of gravity of being does...
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Creative Advances in Groupwork

Anna Chesner, Herb Hahn - Psychology - 2002 - 228 pages
...explains his statement that. There is no such thing as a baby' with the further declaration '...that if you show me a baby you certainly show me also someone caring for the baby...', concluding with '...the unit is not the individual, the unit is an environment-individual set-up' (1987a,...
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Brief Gestalt Therapy

Gaie Houston - Psychology - 2003 - 168 pages
...not unique to Gestalt Therapy. Winnicott (1959: 99) in a famous quotation exemplifies the same idea: 'There is no such thing as a baby ... if you show...certainly show me also someone caring for the baby, or at least a pram with someone's eyes glued to it'. Stem's (1985) theory too supports the Gestalt...
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